? Shen Kang was not appointed as the chief examiner, which was also a logical thing in Ji Ning's opinion, because no one said that Shen Kang would definitely go out of the mountain.

Ji Ning saw a few familiar names in the eighteenth room with the examiner given by Han Yu, such as Han Hanlin Han Zheng who he had seen before, and there were also a few little-known bachelors, these bachelors were all in the temple before, and they would not come out to interfere in anything in the imperial court, and they would only come out to be the same examiner when they took the exam.

In addition to a few bachelors, there are also some Hanlin who are fellow examiners, and Hanlin's reputation is roughly the same as that of bachelors, but in Ji Ning's opinion, these people have a similar characteristic, that is, they basically have no rights and have no reputation.

"Yongning, can you see any doorways?" Han Yu asked.

Ji Ning looked up at Han Yu and said, "What's the doorway?" ”

Han Yu sighed: "Except for the chief examiner, the other candidates are basically calculated before, and there is not much change, so that there may be certain variables in this exam, that is, some people may give gifts if it is appropriate, they may be in the room of the same examiner as their gifts, which will greatly increase the possibility of being admitted as Jinshi!" ”

Ji Ning shook his head and said, "It's not that complicated, right?" ”

In Ji Ning's view, there are so many examiners, even if all the gifts are given, but when it comes to grading, all the exam papers are transcribed, even if there are ink spots or something left in the paper, it has no effect, and the identity of the examinee cannot be identified by the font, the only way is to agree on some strange sentence patterns in the exam questions, which cannot be noticed.

"Yongning can't slack off, this interest is there, so many people want to step into the dragon gate, you said that there are many people who have been Jinshi over the years, how many people can really be talented? Even if it is Xie Yuan in various provinces, he may not be able to enter the Shi, this is the cruelty of this world, and people are often the kind of people who are not famous, which is sometimes very annoying! Han Yu said with some hatred.

"Don't think about it too much on the public platform, the list of examiners and fellow examiners is basically normal, and we have nothing to pick, but as for the chief examiners in the south and north, it seems that they are no longer in dispute." Ji Ning said, "Since Zhang Yujue is a southerner, and Su Yue is a northerner, it is also the opposite direction of the imperial court going out of the north temple and going out of the south as speculated before, this matter should be over for the time being!" ”

Han Yu nodded and said: "That's right, maybe the imperial court also takes into account the several waiters and Hanlin scholars from the Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Academy, so they are not suitable to come out as the chief examiner, they are too controversial in the scholars." But there is one thing I also want to tell you, Yongning, you were originally in all the candidates, and the odds of Huiyuan were the lowest, and now ...... I can't see your face anymore...... Many people think that you are basically going to be famous in this test! ”

Ji Ning smiled and said: "If these people can pinch and calculate, and can calculate whether I can enter the Shi, they don't have to go to the gambling house to earn the people's money, they can directly go to be a fortune teller!" ”

"Haha! Or Yongning you are free and easy, that's it, I should also go back to prepare for the exam more, here is a summary of the previous academic thoughts of several examiners, you take a look, although there is nothing special, they are all seen on the market, but it is better than nothing, you can refer to it casually! ”

Han Yu handed a booklet to Ji Ning.

In the booklet, the academic and political thoughts of the two examiners, Zhang Yujue and Su Yu, are recorded in detail, and the academic thoughts of these two people are listed in detail in the booklet.

But Ji Ning also understands that this kind of pamphlet is basically a copy of the person in the capital, so there is no question of who can get additional advantages.

It depends on who can grasp this information better, or who can get other primary information.

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After Han Yu left, Ji Ning also took out the list of examiners and looked at it carefully.

Before that, he himself also compiled a list of the general candidates for the chief examiner and the same examiner, and sorted out the academic thoughts of these people, and Zhang Yujue and Su Yu, although it seems that there is no basis for being selected as the chief examiner, they are all calculated by Ji Ning.

"Su Yue is ancient, but it is actually elegant and ancient, so what is passed on outside is not true, if someone uses the ancient content when trying to quote the scriptures in this meeting, if it does not conform to Su Yu's elegance, it is self-defeating, but it will be denied by Su Yu. Su Yu was partial to Confucianism, and when he was in Hexi, he had exchanges with several famous Confucian scholars in the world, but his thoughts also carried the content of partialism...... There are quite a few mistakes in this booklet! ”

Ji Ning compared the booklet and found that the person who wrote the booklet was a little misleading to the candidates, and most of the content written on it was not known by Ji Ning's investigation.

Ji Ning took out the previous chapters written by Su Yu and Zhang Yujue, surveyed them in detail, and made sure that there was no deviation in the content of his investigation.

He studied Zhang Yujue in detail: "...... Zhang Yujue was an official in the court, but what he most believed in was not the mediocre way of Confucianism, but the content of advocating Legalism, and he was also biased towards Legalism in academic thought, these are all useful things, and they will inevitably come up with ...... according to the trend of this aspect in their questions."

"The topics of the Four Books and Five Classics, there should not be any major deviations, but some topics are not necessarily, outside the Four Books and Five Classics, the larger scope is a subset of scriptures and history, and the most critical thing is to look at the content of the question, which is also the most critical topic to consider the candidate's understanding of current affairs, what kind of questions will these two people have?"

Ji Ning has studied very thoroughly, and he will even study it himself, if he is allowed to do it, under the premise of conforming to Zhang Yujue and Su Yu's thoughts, what kind of exam questions will he come up with.

In the end, he found that the range of topics he could come up with was not very broad, especially in the Four Books and Five Classics.

He can start with this aspect of the exercises.

At this time, Zhang Yujue and Su Yu have already entered the Tribute Academy, and there are heavy guards inside and outside the Tribute Academy, because there was a fraud case in the Jinling Township Examination before, and the imperial court also attached great importance to this examination, strengthened the vigilance around the Tribute Academy, and arranged many secret sentinels, also to prevent someone from sneaking into the Tribute Courtyard to bring out the topic.

"Ten questions, I'll practice first, as a surprise training, complete ten questions in one day, and after a few days, I will rest for a day or two before the exam, and the exam will almost start!"

Ji Ning arranged everything before the exam, and the rest of the things were implemented according to the plan and waited for the exam to start.